If I catch ‘em within 100 yards of the house, they get executed.

Further out, I leave them alone. I also don’t shoot anything but moccasins.

All of the rest help control the rats, mice, gophers, & moles.
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"Filet that fish? Hell naw! I'll scale him, gut him, fry him up in grease, take him by the head and tail, and play him like a French Harp!" - Uncle Paul sometime in the 60s.